Plate heat exchanger
Plate heat exchanger
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Please could someone comment on the max. tempareture difference allowed for a plate heat exchanger to cool water successfully? Please could you give me a tempareture range that one could go and utilize such and exchanger? Advantages/disadvantages of plate vs shell and tube and plate vs spiral.
Thanking you
Mech225
Thanking you
Mech225





RE: Plate heat exchanger
http://www.tranterphe.com/phe/PDFs/PCC-3.pdf
My experience is with Platecoil® HXers used in open top, rectangular process tanks, as in the metal finishing business. The Platecoil® is hung about 2” from the back wall of the tank, leaving room for natural convection. The process solution isn’t pumped (except for filtration), but air agitation may be used. Platecoil® HXers are fairly easy to clean.
Other HXer types are more effective where both solutions are pumped, especially for countercurrent heat transfer. For more information on various types of HXers, see the Product Literature page at http://www.tranterphe.com/phe/literature.htm
See also “Selecting a Heat Exchanger” at http://www.lytron.com/support/ex_select.htm
The Heat Exhanger Institute has impartial publications: www.heatexchange.org
Spiral or serpentine HXers are less expensive due to ease of manufacture. I get very competitive pricing in 316 SS, Ti and Zr serpentine HXers from
http://www.astrocosmos.com/
http://www.titanmf.com
RE: Plate heat exchanger
Post this question on the Heat Transfer thread, and I'll bet you get a lot of answers.